Re: bless (adj)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 24, 2004, 17:37 |
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On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 12:36:42PM -0400, Amanda Babcock wrote:
> You mean you haven't run across "can food" yet or any of the others?
> (Seen at the grocery store.)
I've encountered other examples, yes. Not "can food", but I have seen,
e.g., many menus offering "ice tea".
> My perception is that AAVE has been moving toward a system in which
> the bare verb, used adjectivally, *is* the passive participle. I think
> this is a generalization from the consonant-cluster simplification
> thing.
Yeah, but it's not just AAVE. It seems further along there, but
white-folk Southern dialects seem to be doing it, too.
-Marcos
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